Opera “The Barber of Seville” will be under the baton of Margarita Grinivetskaya on April 19

Margarita Grinivetskaya will first conduct the opera “The Barber of Seville”, which will be held on the stage of Odessa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre on Friday, April 19.

Margarita Grinivetskaya first conducted the orchestra at the age of 15 years. She graduated from Nezhdanova National Music Academy in specialties "choral conducting" and "opera-symphonic conducting". In 2015, as an assistant conductor, she took part in the staging of opera “Selma” by Poul Ruders at State Opera of Bavaria, as well as in recordings of symphonic works by Boris Lyatoshinskiy with the Bamberg City Symphony Orchestra for Bavaria Radio. In 2016 she won the Grand Prix and the audience award at the Fifth All-Ukrainian competition-festival of conducting art "Musical Tavria" in Kherson. She became a conductor of Odessa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre in June 2018.

Also on April 19the theatre-goers will first enjoy a soloist of Odessa Opera House Anastasia Martynyuk as Rosina. The part of Figaro will be performed by Bogdan Panchenko and Honoured Artist of Ukraine Vladislav Goray will play Count Almaviva.